Author

William Roebuck was a finalist for the Missouri Review’s 2020 Jeffrey E. Smith Editors’ Prize for Nonfiction and has previously been published in the Chicago Quarterly Review and the Foreign Service Journal. Roebuck completed his diplomatic career in late 2020, after twenty-eight years of service in postings across the Middle East, including Baghdad, Tripoli, and, most recently, northeastern Syria. He served as US ambassador to the Kingdom of Bahrain from 2015-17. He currently serves as Executive Vice President of the Arab Gulf States Institute in Washington.